Quotes About Performance

In a famous 1987 study, researchers Michael Diehl and Wolfgang Stroebe from Tubingen University in Germany concluded that brainstorming groups have never outperformed virtual groups.7 Of

Father Time is the make-up man responsible for the physical changes that determine the parts the average actor is to play.

A comedian who starts talking to himself becomes his own audience. This is fatal.

A good comedian can say things funny and other guys just say funny things.

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.

Radio is called a medium because it is rare that anything is well done.

The first time I sang in the church choir; two hundred people changed their religion.

An actor, to spend his entire life as an actor, has to have the mind of a child. A writer at sixty can be a Steinbeck, a Faulkner, or a Hemingway. An actor at sixty can make a funny face or do a creaky dance. The actor lives a reasonable-facsimile existence while cavorting in an unreal world. The value of an actor's services are determined by the needs of another person.

I'm crucified between the sky of what I intend to be and the earth of my performance.

What good is sitting alone in your room?Come hear the music play;Life is a cabaret, old chum,Come to the cabaret.

Adams' attitude toward employees exemplified the New England view defining people mostly by performance. Class was accidental, a matter of birth and category. Performance was individual, partly under the control of character. He was interested in people of every class. Steerage and cabin passengers mingled in a twice-a-week political discussion group in which he took part. When

where there is individual accountability, things get done. Measure is another magic word: what gets measured creates accountability. With no standard, reliable metric for customer relationships, employees can't be held accountable for them and so overlook their importance.

We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.

Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.

One thing for sure is that most working athletes would go faster if they managed to get an extra hour of sleep every night. Sleep is a natural performance enhancer, and a lack of it is probably the single greatest challenge facing most working athletes.

Rather than comparing ourselves with normal people, we'll gain more insight into our needs by seeing what active, fit, and highly motivated older humans are capable of doing. There aren't as many of these people—after all, they aren't normal—but they often reveal what is possible at the highest levels of athletic performance.

In the Base period, when training volume is relatively high and intensity is low, eating a diet rich in "good" fats is beneficial to improving your ability to burn fat for fuel while conserving glycogen stores—a physiological goal of training at this time of the season.

Each group was required to propose its own "fitness function"—a linear equation that it could use to measure its own impact without ambiguity. For example, a two-pizza team in charge of sending advertising e-mails to customers might choose for its fitness function the rate at which these messages were opened multiplied by the average order size those e-mails generated.

You can't compare were you don't compete.

No one's played on the moon yet. No one's played in zero gravity. Some bands have played at the Pyramids of Giza, but we'd very much like to do that in the near future.

The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs.

Well physically preparing for the role, definitely and then continuing to stay physically fit throughout filming, getting up, 4.00 4.30 in the morning.

Christopher Reeve did such an amazing job that to give him some kind of accent or more bravado would have been wrong. Audiences wouldn't have responded to that either.

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.